Bridge-Guard in the Karroo (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1901 ". . . and will supply details to guard the Blood River Bridge." District Orders-Lines of Communication, South African ...
1901 ". . . and will supply details to guard the Blood River Bridge." District Orders-Lines of Communication, South African ...
You waste the attention of your eyes, the glittering labour of your hands, and knead the dough enough for dozens ...
[Addressed, during the Swiss tour already mentioned, to a present Lily had given him, during the time of their happy ...
Utter devastation the loss of their nation nothing will be the safe for many years to come The enormity of ...
What must he have felt, sharing in the meal the invocation, the intoning of the words these words of the ...
Even the betrayer, the one who shared the bowl who would give him over to man even him, Christ washed ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That's noted for fresh air and fun, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Went ...
I'll tell of the Magna Charter As were signed at the Barons' command On Runningmead Island in t' middle of ...
There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That's noted for fresh air and fun, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Went ...
TWELVE o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of ...
As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies As the Vulture teased Forces the Broods in lonely Valleys As the Tiger ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
God lay dead in heaven; Angels sang the hymn of the end; Purple winds went moaning, Their wings drip-dripping With ...
Why is it that Poetry has never yet been subjected to that process of Dilution which has proved so advantageous ...
Botticelli grinned with egg tempera congealed at the hinge of his lips Velasquez licked shine from an aubergine blackened in ...
Who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion There was a Boy whose name was Jim; ...
The future: time's excuse to frighten us; too vast a project, too large a morsel for the heart's mouth. Future, ...
He took a frayed hat from his head, And "Peace on Earth" was what he said. "A morsel out of ...
Come riddle-me-ree, come riddle-me-ree, And tell me, what my name may be. I am nearly one hundred and thirty years ...
In the wide bed Under the freen embroidered quilt With flowers and leaves always in soft motion She is like ...
In Arthur's house whileome was I When happily the time went by In midmost glory of his days. He held ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
In long gone years a fox and crane Were bound in friendship's golden chain; Whene'er they met, the fox would ...
Children Pray dearest mother if you please Cut up your double-curded cheese, The oldest of the brotherhood. It's ripe, no ...
Round clouds roll in the arms of the wind, The round earth rolls in a clasp of blue sky, And ...
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